The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-06

"Oh, he's all right, only'his looks
are agin him powerfully. How'd he
pear t be comm down on the pump.
handle, Hanner?"
HE want throwin' himself ont il
very hefty, Zacharier. Flow ye won't
find him any very great shakes"
''Oh, I'll tend t him. He can work,
I'll bet a farm. an if he won't get t.
shinin' round Alice | reckon he'll be a
good man. I've had t chase bout
ev'ry man I've had lately off the place
cause he got it into his head he was
goin' t marry Alice. Pears t me
we'uns are very unlucky that way"
''Zacharier, Alice 'courages EN-,
that's wot she does; she flirts with 'em.
Wy, you mind hat last one we had in
the spring, We know l caught her
passin' u piece O. pie out o the pantry
winder t him. Yes, sir, a big piece o.
dried punkin pie, an he took it an sot
down Oh the edge O. my soap kettle
an ct it, an she stuck her head out O.
the winder an watched him"
Eyes, I know it, Hammer, dun ID, I
know it. Ye jest watch an see how
much pie she passes out to this cuss!
Wy, if had his picture I'd hang it
Jpn the barn to keep the hogs out!'
They were interrupted by Alice an
nouncing that supper was ready, and
all gathered in the large cool kitchen
where it was served.
"Jes' set right down at the end thar,
Tom, an hep yourself said Zach
ariah, with a wave of the hand to the
new man. He did not need a second
invitation, and moved on the excellent
supper which Alice had prepared as if
he was in the habit of carrying such
things before him. He gave his undi-
vided attention to the business in
hand, and Mr.. Daybaugh failed to de-
tect him in so much as glancing at his
daughter. Alice, who sat opposite,
though to tell the truth, an impartial
observer could not have blamed him
much if he had embraced every oppor-
tunity for gazing at her, for she was
certainly worthy of any mans atten-
ton. Plump, rosy-cheeked, brown
eyed and-well, l will say very pretty
and let it 60 at that-it did not seem
strange that so many of his predeces-
sors had fallen victims to her charms,
or that the last one had even been de-
tected in taking pie from her hands
through the pantry window. especially
as no one denied that she offered him
the pie, and in fact. encouraged him
to eat it; and still further. that it was
a piece of Mrs. D%aybaugh's famous
dried pumpkin pie and an inch thick.
But if Tom had been at all moved by
the charms of Alice lie failed to betray
it by a look and kept up his attacks on
the bread-plate in a way that somewhat
alarmed the worthy Zachariah. Alice.
however, either from a smaller appe-
tite or curiosity or coquettlshness, Or
there isn't room here to make q cata-
logue of the different feelings which are
liable to move the female mind, so l
will say, OIL something-did not fail to
observe this addition to the linen
folks" of the family. She certainly
didn't find anything very handsome.
though she did not find herself pre-
pared to say that he was quite so bad
looking as Zachariah had said. He
was tall, raw-boned, with hair of a sort
of undecided shade with a strong lean
ing towards red, and immensely large
hands and-a good appetite. He
looked intelligent and like n good fell
low generally. While Alice admitted
to herself that he was far from being
as handsome as some Of the other hired
men who had risen and
fallen in the Daybaugh FAM
lily, at the same time she decided that
there were without doubt many worse
young men in the world, and that, as
much as his looks were against him,
she could conceive that the time might
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clear to administer to him pie, dried
pumpkin pie, from the pantry window.
Though the thought did occur to her
that sven If he should recover from the
effects of the meal he was now eating,
1t would be exceedingly doubtful II he
would have any desire for any thing SO
substantial as dried pumpkin pie al
inch thick for some time.
/. At last Tom stopped eating, evident.
ly more because the others did than
from any personal reason.
''Jes' give the hogs bout four BUCK
els o that swill in the bar'l by the
door, an pump up the trough full o
water, an turn the bosses out'n tho
pasture, an then We better go I bed
cause we want'o be out o. bed gin
sun-up in the mornin',' SAID Zach.
ariah to Tom, Us they rose from the
supper-tablc. II swar, Hammer" he
continual. after Tom went mt s.did